THE SILVER GHOST

Who killed the gardener? And who stole the 1920 Rolls Royce Silver Ghost? It's murder and mayhem among millionaires in Charlotte Macleod's seventh mystery featuring married private detectives Sarah Kelling and Max Bittersohn. The action unfolds at the annual late-summer Renaissance Revel on the grounds of a magnificent Boston estate belonging to old friends of the Kelling family. Reader Mary Peiffer deftly separates the aristocrats from the rabble with subtle shifts in her New England accent. She does her best voice work as a quirky maiden aunt and a womanizing professor of Renaissance music. A fascinating look at a family tree with some surprisingly crooked branches. E.V. (c) AudioFile 2002, Portland, Maine [Published: FEB/ MAR 02]